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Gerald Lawson is the person to thank for that PlayStation, Wii or Xbox you or your loved one is playing on. A self-taught engineer, he is considered a pioneer in the video game world for creating the single cartridge-based gaming system.

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Rachel Aviv: The Scientist Who Took on a Leading Herbicide Manufacturer Tyrone Hayes, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, has devoted the past fifteen years to studying the herbicide atrazine, which is applied to more than half the corn in the country. During that time scientists around the world have expanded on his findings, suggesting that the herb...

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LITTLE KNOWN BLACK HISTORY FACT

The media made the Black Panthers notorious for their Afros, dark apparel, and willingness for armed self-defense, but their manifesto for change launched programs that benefited black communities nationwide, like free dental care, breakfast for low-income children, even drama classes

Before the US government gave breakfast at school, the program was initiated at St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland. By year’s end it spread to cities nationwide, feeding over 10,000 children every day before school.

Just months later J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, publicly stated the Panthers are the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country”,
…If you read the FBI files you will see that even J. Edgar Hoover himself had to say that it was not the guns that were the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States of America; it was not the guns, it was the Free Children’s Breakfast Program that was the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States of America. It was the Free Children’s Breakfast Program because the Free Children’s Breakfast Program engendered a certain following on the Black community’s part, a certain respect on the Black community’s part. I mean, nobody can argue with free grits. So Hoover saw it as a kind of…infiltration.
The Black Panthers were eventually opposed by the secret FBI operation COINTELPRO.
The "Breakfast for Children" program was effectively shut down by daily arrests of members; however, these charges were most often dropped within a week.

"The Breakfast for Children Program," wrote Hoover in an internal FBI memo in May 1969, "represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for."
Hoover submitted orders to FBI offices: "exploit all avenues of creating dissension within the ranks of the BPP," and "submit imaginative and hard-hitting counterintelligence measures aimed at crippling the BPP."
This, along with numerous other threats and acts of violence were made in an attempt to shut the party down.
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Image: A Black Panther Party member peers from behind a door riddled with bullet holes next to a poster advertising the Panther’s free breakfast program for children.

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The “Grandfather Clause” was enacted for voting purposes February 8, 1898

The Grandfather Clause was a legal or constitutional mechanism passed by seven Southern states during reconstruction to deny suffrage to black Americans. It meant that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting. As a result, even if they met all the requirements, they were not allowed to vote.

Because the former slaves were not granted that right until the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, these clauses worked effectively to exclude Blacks from voting and assured the vote of many impoverished and illiterate whites. In 1915 the Supreme Court declared the grandfather clause unconstitutional because it violated equal voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment.

Please share and discuss! Food for thought for the growing mind! Society wants to keep you in prison. This should not be allowed, period point blank! SOTU

What?!? Private prisons suing states for millions if they don’t stay full | Rolling Out - Black... Private prisons sue states for millions if they don't stay full

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Not to mention the historical FACT that nearly half of Mexico (about a third of what is now the U.S.) was literally stolen from them during the Mexican American "War" under the guise of "Manifest Destiny." We are all immigrants, and should treat all undocumented workers with respect and dignity.

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Radiated Milk Sold In Black Neighborhoods : The Art of Slow Genocide in today's "social commentary"... It is not often that this MadMan is taken aback .. especially by something I already suspected/knew… but sometimes seeing the proof or having it validated can sti...

Check out my brother John Bruton! If you are in the Cleveland Area.

John Bruton - "Living with a Woman" This was taped January, 14th, 2014 at the Chucklefck.com's Reddstone Open Mic. Cleveland, OH. www.JohnBrutonComedy.com

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Please share and bring justice to this beautiful family! Please don't let their death go in vain. GOD have mercy.

Family of Jehovah’s Witnesses Found Slain in Their South Carolina Home


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